The most important goal of clinical researches is publishing the
results in order to improve human health. If the results will be accepted by
the scientific community, researcher aim would be achieved at improving public
health. A published article does not guarantee the acceptance of its findings
by the scientific community, hence, research should be done by considering a
scientific plan. Due to the increasing amount of research studies, experts
attempted to provide guidelines for standardization of a piece of scientific
medical research.

Researches related to the diagnostic tests, are important studies
in medical sciences, it is because of their critical role in detection of many
diseases by using laboratory processes such as microbiology, immunology,
pathology, etc. Early diagnosis of diseases results in developing the treatment
process and therefore controlling and inhibiting the spread of pathogens from
patients to others.

With regard
to the fact that Iran placed among the 30 countries leading in publication of
scientific journals related to diagnostic tests and according to important role of standardization of research design
and final report of diagnostic tests, the present study was performed to
introduce the STandards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies
(STARD).

Funding: This research was
funded by Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences.

Conflict of interest:
None declared.

Ethical approval:
The Ethics Committee of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences approved the
study.